I'm sure many of the Palin-hating blog posters here on ProgressNow are dancing behind your keyboards with last night's release of a report that found Gov. Palin guilty of abusing her power in office. And while in the short term the McCain campaign will be busy lying and weaseling their away around this development, in the long term THEY are the ones who are dancing with joy.

Why? Now they have an excuse to cut Gov Palin loose, choose a more competent running mate (prob Sen. Dole of NC), bash the media, and allow GOV Palin a political retreat that will solidify her future Right-Wing Nutjob career.

Here's what will happen - the McCain campaign will send out the usual Media-bashing "it's a partisan stunt" press release crap over the weekend, but will also loudly proclaim that Sen McCain will be having a closed-door meeting with Gov. Ditz on Sunday, prob before or during the talk shows,

Gov Palin will call a lonely press conference, and declare that due to the partisan bias of the liberal left-wing media, she has been unfairly declared guilty of crime she did not commit. However, she'll be stepping down from the campaign for the good of the Republican Party, and she'll return to Alaska to fight for God and Country and restore her good name in politics. For the remainder of the campaign, she remains the darling of the mainstream media, and attacks the Dems and Obama with impunity, all the while repeating the usual crap about the left-wing liberal media attacking her reputation.

Meanwhile, Libby Dole (losing large in the NC Senate race, and prob with no chance to come back) will declare her willingness to sacrifice her Senate race for the good of the country, and proudly accept the VP slot. She then goes on the road as the "GOP Experience Dream Team," nicely bashes Obama and Biden, and brings back the Uber-Right of party, and attempts to seduce independent and undecided voters with the Dark Side of the Republican Force.

Unlikely? Worked for Tricky Dick Nixon....